Children (N = 100) in each of the Grades 2 through 6 responded with qualifiers to 100 “culture-free” substantives. A constrained word-association task was used. The normative data consist of a tabulation of the frequency of occurrence of each qualifier, elicited to each substantive, according to grade-level. Results of analyses of these data are summarized.
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